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downloading a fic when ao3 dies (when you have the link)

looks like ao3 is down again and i was in the middle of a multi chapter fic when it died on me.

and if that happens to you, this is what you can do to download the fic:

copy paste https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/00000000/fic.html in your browser url

replace the pink bit with the number right after /works (that's the work id)

for instance, in https://archiveofourown.org/works/44970790/chapters/113154673 the highlighted bit (44970790) would be the number you swap for the 0s

the download link will look like https://download.archiveofourown.org/downloads/44970790/fic.html

if you want the fic to be downloaded as an epub instead, use .epub at the end of that link

it should start downloading on your device

i'm sure a bunch of people know this and use it but in case you don't, hope this helps

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Sims 4 has released a free update to the base game with a number of new pride items, which was a nice pleasant surprise for a Thursday morning (I'm Australian). I love a free pride update as much as the next queer person.

However.

Of the 12 new items added there is a nice variety of both CAS and Build/Buy items; make up, clothes, shelves, beds, decorations. Only one of these new items has an aro pride swatch, the new knitted pride flag.

It is so disappointing to see a number of beautiful items introduced and then to find out that your identity is included in almost none of them. This is unfortunately nothing new. While there is an aromantic swatch on the in game pride flag, the various pride nails in CAS did not include aromantic colours.

I have posted on the EA forums for the Sims 4 about my disappointment, but I'm not sure much will come of it. If you share my disappointment maybe drop by and leave a comment in support, or reach out to EA yourselves to see if this can be fixed in a future update.

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Time to bring back the terms Watsonian and Doylist.

Remember, if people are criticizing elements of a story like Wall•E's fatphobia they are speaking from a Doylist perspective, not a Watsonian one. Defending the elements with in-story reasoning isn't going to cut it when the problem is the implicit (or explicit) bias of the author(s).

it was kind of fucked up for wall-e to be that way about fat people now that im thinking about it

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Actually nah, on second thought I'm gonna block the OP of that last post. Going through their blog shows the most rancid acephobic takes and they're for sure not worth talking to.

I was hoping I'd misunderstood, but apparently not.

Reminder, you can be mad about the way aros (especially alloaros) are treated without shitting on the ace community, who is just as much in the trenches as us. It's not the oppression Olympics people, grow up and learn to work together.

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Wait I'm confused, are you implying that there aren't people who identify solely with the label asexual?

there's a reason that "just aro" is a thing and "just ace" isn't

(hint: it's because aromanticism is an inherently more nuanced experience)

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hope is a skill

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So I was just thinking about those posts you get in the Discworld tag about the way belief works on the Disc and how Vetinari and/or Vimes is so integral to the way Ankh-Morpork works that they might just sort of… not ever die.

You know, the ones like ‘Vimes is going to become a god of policemen and he’s going to hate it”.

Well. What if it happens to both of them? There are two parts to the city, after all. ‘Proud Ankh’ needs taking down a peg or two (or seven) by Sam Vimes, and if anyone can terrify ‘pestilent Morpork’ into being better then it’s Havelock Vetinari. And they can drive each other mad with stealth puns for centuries, if they want.

Also, this would potentially make them literally Law And Order, and that just seems very fitting in a way that would probably annoy them both.

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Sherlock Holmes modern adaptation but the main characters (Sherlock, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler, and maybe even Lestrade) are all vampires and they’ve just been doing their thing since the time period of the original books

Irene gets to be from New Jersey like she is in canon and she’ll occasionally show up and help Sherlock with a case but they don’t ever date or hook up or anything

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An old dragon just wants to be left alone, but the new village that just cropped up a few decades ago keep leaving gifts at his doorstep… and now they’ve just left a maiden!

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IM SAYINNN

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Second quick question, why the fuck is it any of your business who a queer person brings to support them at pride?

“Bi women bringing their cishet boyfriends to pride are sooo annoying!”

Quick question do you know for a fact that the bi women’s partner is a cishet man? Or are you just assuming things based on looks to have a reason to hate on bi women.

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AUREA is raising $3,500 to become the first aro-spec specific non-profit!

You can donate, find our budget breakdown, and learn more about what becoming a non-profit would mean for us here!

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Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

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i lowkey ship tumblr ♠ twitter now

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Hello!! I wrote an original statement featuring Cain and some mischief around swimming pools, hope that's all right. I was really inspired by them + your artwork and somehow pulled two thousand words out of the air. 😁 I originally saw you on Instagram and then realizing you had a Tumblr with Even More Cool Stuff was a real treat. Have a fantastic day!! 🤝🏼

THIS IS SO COOL WHAT. I love how you wrote him and ouaghhhddgdhdgddvdhd it's so cool oh my god I'm sending the link to everyone I know

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I wish more people used Magic the Gathering's Color Pie instead of D&D's alignment all of the time.

Like, saying a character embodies the selfishness and impulsivenes of Red Black offers more depth than Chaotic Evil